Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , if the forged words were not in the documents , he could with pardonable exaggeration use the words ultimum quasi robur . |
| 2 | But its characteristics were more at the level of perception than of narrative : peripheral vision ; proximity to the image ; and massive amplification of sound . |
| 3 | It was all over after 41 laps when Hill 's engine blew … his hopes and those of all the home fans were up in the smoke … |
| 4 | Her legs were out to the side like that |
| 5 | I ca n't describe it , she had , her legs were out to the side , but they were pointing down like that |
| 6 | My legs were all over the show and I 've got to stand tall tomorrow . ’ |
| 7 | Second best were the grammar schools , deemed to be a kind of honorary public schools ; secondary modern schools were not in the running . |
| 8 | For comprehensive schools were still in the late l950s regarded as experimental , and in any case suitable only for certain areas , such as rural parts of the country hitherto ill-served by grammar schools . |
| 9 | The new men of the Kremlin were not above the simplicity of taking a former idea and adapting it to their needs . |
| 10 | Josh and Becky were still at the doors , greeting people they knew . |
| 11 | The remaining problem was that although all the physical activities of the Branch , except for the field work , were concentrated in one place at Farnborough , our offices were still with the Department of Trade in central London . |
| 12 | All the offices were still within the partnership and all the partners still had joint and several responsibility , but the bank said no . |
| 13 | At that stage Transvaal were still in the running for the night series trophy and his presence would obviously have made a difference . |
| 14 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 15 | The survey , of about 80 rivers and lakes , also found that pesticides were comfortably below the EEC levels . |
| 16 | ‘ The kids were out in the lake on one of those pedal boats . |
| 17 | Yet although my addresses were chiefly in the nature of pep-talks , I usually contrived to work in what today would be called ‘ culture ’ , and sometimes the pub scene in The Waste Land or parts of Portrait of a Lady would go down with a wow . |
| 18 | Since the lawmakers were mostly of the creditor class , their attitude was to retain a statute by which they could obtain a writ for the arrest of their debtor and his detention at their will . |
| 19 | I do n't think we could ever have made Caring for People work when the CPNs were here in the hospital and the social workers were 10 miles away in Retford . ’ |
| 20 | The Jews were back in the ground again . |
| 21 | Claire and Nickie were both in the process of changing pills when they fell pregnant . |
| 22 | Other designers were also on the track of trailing edge resonance . |
| 23 | Arsenal were through to the next round , and it was the turning point in the club 's history . |
| 24 | We are beginning to play some good stuff but I still think we can step u Arsenal were quickly off the mark , going ahead after only five minutes when a long David Seaman clearance found its way to Lee Dixon , whose early pass picked out Alan Smith . |
| 25 | At the start of the second half , Orrell were back in the match . |
| 26 | The two Under Secretaries were immediately below the Secretary of State , and the Chief Clerk was next in seniority . |
| 27 | A mood of trust began to emerge , and an agreed formula began to evolve , although the concessions were mainly from the British . |
| 28 | Several rhynchosaurs have been found in association with fragments of plants ( though it is not possible to say from a juxtaposition of fossils whether those fragments were ever inside the animal ) and the diet probably consisted of leaves , stems , fruit and seeds of seed-ferns , conifers , ginkgos , equisitales ( horsetails ) and ferns ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 29 | Anne and Millie were both in the kitchen and they were having a serious talk as well . |
| 30 | And strangely enough , the branch , the branches were not in the machinery of negotiations . |